Jordan’s King Abdullah II met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Monday to discuss Occupied Jerusalem tensions and other political developments. This is the first visit for the Jordanian monarch to Ramallah in five years.
The king of Jordan arrived in Ramallah on Monday afternoon by helicopter in a visit that comes two weeks after Jerusalem protests flared against the Israeli installment of metal detectors at the gates of al-Aqsa Mosque.
This also followed the killing of two Jordanians by an Israeli security guard at the Israeli Embassy in Jordan.
Both leaders held a closed meeting away from the media and concluded their meeting without a press conference.
According to Israel Hayom Hebrew newspaper the Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Ministry has been pushing Jordan to reopen the Israeli Embassy based on pressures practiced by Palestinian as well as Jordanian businessmen who have been banned from entering the West Bank due to inability to coordinate their entry with the Israeli Embassy after its closure.
